M.D. v. STATE

No. 4D09-806.

30 So.3d 650 (2010)

M.D., a child, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

March 17, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Patrick B. Burke, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melynda L. Melear, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


DAMOORGIAN, J.

M.D. timely appeals his adjudication of delinquency and sentence for possession of marijuana (less than twenty grams), arguing that the State did not produce sufficient evidence that he had dominion and control over the marijuana found in proximity to him at the time of his arrest. We agree and reverse.

M.D. was charged by juvenile petition with possession of marijuana (less than twenty grams) and loitering and prowling. At trial, the State...

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